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Is the Paleo Diet Community a Cult?

Just asking…  

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The “You’re Wrong, Therefore I’m Right About Everything” Disease

I’ve been reading a lot of diet blogs and books recently. And there’s something that almost all of them do that’s really starting to bug me. (I do it, too.) They (we) extrapolate way, way too much based on not … Continue reading

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The “Dieting Made Easy” Lie

The lure of the “dieting made easy” promise is so, so seductive. We all want to believe in magic belly fat cures. For some of us, the possibility of magic is the only thing keeping us going. Ask yourself: how … Continue reading

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How Fat Could You Get, If You Really, Really Tried? Infinitely Fat?

What if, on a perverse whim, you decided that you wanted to become the fattest human being ever to grace God’s green Earth. Could you do it? If not, why not? If the Calorie Wizards are right, if you have … Continue reading

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